Well here's a guy who gets it! We **** and moan when a biker blows on by another on the side of the road, but I haven't heard the same outrage when a bike passes a stranded cage. It may be true that a stranded biker is somewhat more vulnerable on the side of the road than someone sitting in a cage, but when someone needs help, they need help...with their H-D, Ducati, Ford, whatever. Bikers looking after bikers is a good thing. Bikers looking ONLY after other bikers not so good. BTW, sorry to say that I'm among the guilty...I tend to check only on bikers.

 

I stopped on the side of the road to put my jacket on, before I could even get the bag opened to get my jacket, another rider pulled up and asked if we were OK. So the tradition is still alive in San Diego.

 

Really puttin pressure on me about that one time I seen that dude on his kjnees looking under his bike and I didnt stop I swear I'll stop next time! please stop torturing me!

 

We always stop bike or cage. Yesterday coming back from Brunwick GA. we stopped to help a fella push his car through the intersection. Once on the side my buddy tells me hey look in the front seat. Seems he had time to stop for beer but not for gas as there where cans all over the floor and what appeared to be a cold one on the seat. We took his keys to the convenience store 1/4 mile up the road called LEO and told them where to find him and his keys.

 

There r many "bikers" that havn't a clue!!

 

i stop every time i see some one broke down... be that metric or HD... hell I have even gone home got my trailer and brought the girl back to the shop to fix her bike... worked out well... anyways... some people just dont know how to work on bikes... i stop cause there is not much i can not fix and usuall if a HD breaks down after a full day of riding it is something simple like a fuse or loose terminals... if someone does not know how to work on it why would they stop?

 

Let me wallow in where angel's fear to tread.
In NightTrain's sig, it says, "The Pussyfication of the American Biker"
And ever since I read that long ago, I have pondered it.
The conclusion I come to is this:
Over the decades, what happened to pick up trucks, yes, pick ups, is what has happened to HD's. There was a time when only farmers or the working man, drove pick ups. They were a little rough around the edges, no modern niceties, a little hard to drive and deal with, etc. Then they started putting automatic trans in, power steering, A/C, on and on.
Pretty soon, you look around and even soccer mom's are cruising round in PICK UP trucks. Now, if those same ppl had to wrestle with those old trucks I grew up with, they would say what my Mom said, "H*ll no, I'm not driving that tool to town."
Trust me, if most of us on here, had to wrestle with an old pan or shovelhead, kicking, wrenching, vibrating, dripping and oil spotted clothes, everytime we wanted to go for a cruise, "H*ll no" would be the answer. (WELL, except some of us curmudgeons )
The scoots have become so user friendly, that, like pick ups, there are many who ride, who either can't, won't, or don't care to work(for lack of a better word) to ride, Just wouldn't do it. As such, we have a bazillion ppl riding, who are not even remotely cut from the same bolt of cloth as ppl who rode 30 yrs ago or so. JUST like pick up trucks.
The result, we have lost that comraderie, that 'akinship' that was, I believe, much more evident and prevalent back then.
I am dammed proud to say, I have NEVER ridden or driven past a rider/biker on the side of the road, and I don't remeber my Dad driving past, either, and he would have been 100 next April. But in the past 10 yrs or so, I have had ppl ride by, and a good portion of them, do not even wave, let alone stop.
NOW, I did not draw this conclusion to P*ss anybody off, or start a diatribe over it. It is just my conclusion to a sentence, that I happen to think is true, and my resultiong thoughts on it.
BUT you are MORE then Welcome to FLAME AWAY. (This is a FORUM )

 

Very well said, my man!

 

I wonder if what part of the country you are in makes a differance? I been on the side of the road twice here in Oregon. Both times the very first person stopped to check on me, also both times on back country roads, very little traffic.

 

I beleve this is true, if you see two folks and one of them has a cell phone not much todo unless you are a great wrench.